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Socilogical Problems

-• Please refer to your notes and assigned reading materials to answer the questions to the exam.
• Properly cite all external references, including the assigned books and other resources. You can use ASA, or another citation style of your choice.
Please proofread your paper before turning it in. Also, your paper will be turned in for plagiarism. If any plagiarism is found you will be expelled from school.
From Jim Crow to Juan Crow: In 2011, the Alabama state legislature passed HB 56, which was coined as the “toughest anti-immigration law in the country.” The law targeted Hispanics, and came during a wave of other anti-immigration bills that were passed in Arizona, Mississippi, and Georgia. The most controversial features of the original law (i.e., HB 56) that were passed required that teachers report whether students were “illegal” immigrants, required that police arrest anyone who was suspected of the being an immigrant, and a persons who gave an immigrant a ride could be charged with a crime. Some critics deemed the law as draconian, a vestige of Jim Crow, and comparable to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. In contrast, others supported the law based on the perception that the law protected jobs and increased public safety. Research and discuss Alabama’s, and other states’, anti-immigration laws. What were the manifest and latent function of the laws? Do you think the law was comparable to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850? Why or why not? Now, use your sociological imagination to think about the social, political, and economic context in which these bills were presented, and subsequently became law. Now, now embed this social issue into historical context. Hence, what are the parallels between HB 56 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

-• Please refer to your notes and assigned reading materials to answer the questions to the exam.
• Properly cite all external references, including the assigned books and other resources. You can use ASA, or another citation style of your choice.
Please proofread your paper before turning it in. Also, your paper will be turned in for plagiarism.